605 research outputs found
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Die Stille im deutschen romantischen Kunstlied
No full textDie Stille als musikalisches Ausdrucksmittel spielt in der romantischen Gattung des Schubertschen Liedes eine wesentliche Rolle. Sie steigert die für die Paarung Klavier-Gesang so entscheidende Intimität, in welcher die Subtilitäten poetischer und musikalischer Inhalte der Lieder erst zur Geltung kommen. Die musikalische Stille tritt mit verschiedenen Gefühlen wie: Ruhe, Geborgenheit oder Erstarrung, Todesangst, Verzweiflung und Einsamkeit in Verbindung. Stille per se erweckt keine Gefühle, sondern hebt in der Musik oder im Text bereits vorhandene Affekte hervor. Die Stille kann sich musikalisch verschieden äußern. Der Bogen reicht von mensurierter Stille, über Stille als musikalischer Aura bis hin zu nicht mensurierten Stillemomenten innerhalb von Liedinterpretationen.
Die für die Gattung Lied bedeutendste Form ist jene einer Aura der Stille, welche von Schubert durch die Verwendung bestimmter harmonischer, melodischer und rhythmischer Strukturen erzeugt wird. Das an sich Paradoxe, dass tönende bewegte Musik Stille ausdrückt, wird von Schubert durch die Reduktion der Musik auf ihre Umrisse erreicht.
Gesangsstimme und Klaviersatz werden in Harmonie, Rhythmus und melodischem Verlauf auf ein Minimum reduziert. Einfachheit und Schlichtheit prägen die musikalischen Strukturen. Unabhängig von Pausen und der Dynamik des piano erzeugt Schubert somit ein Gefühl der Stille.
Die Verwendung der Stille als kompositorisches Mittel entspricht dem Zeitgeist und der Ästhetik des zu Schuberts Lebzeit erstarkenden Bürgertums. Dieses fand in der Beschäftigung mit Literatur und Musik einen Rückzugsort ins Private
Dorsman (Leen) & Knegtmans (Peter Jan), eds. Stille wijkplaatsen ? Politiek aan de Nederlandse universiteiten sinds 1876.
No full textMaes Anais. Dorsman (Leen) & Knegtmans (Peter Jan), eds. Stille wijkplaatsen ? Politiek aan de Nederlandse universiteiten sinds 1876.. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 85, fasc. 3-4, 2007. Histoire medievale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse. moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 975-976
Die Herkunft der Magmen nach Stille vom Standpunkt der Alpengeologie
No full textDIE HERKUNFT DER MAGMEN NACH STILLE VOM STANDPUNKT DER ALPENGEOLOGIE
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Identifying the origins of local atmospheric deposition in the steel industry basin of Luxembourg using the chemical and isotopic composition of the lichen Xanthoria parietina
No full textTrace metal atmospheric contamination was assessed in one of the oldest European industrial sites of steel production situated in the southern part of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Using elemental ratios as well as Pb, Sr, and Nd isotopic compositions as tracers, we found preliminary results concerning the trace metal enrichment and the chemical/isotopic signatures of the most important emission sources using the lichen Xanthoria parietina sampled at 15 sites along a SW-NE transect. The concentrations of these elements decreased with increasing distance from the historical and actual steel-work areas. The combination of the different tracers (major elements, Rare Earth Element ratios, Pb, Sr and Nd isotopes) enabled us to distinguish between three principal sources: the historical steel production (old tailings corresponding to blast-furnace residues), the present steel production (industrial sites with arc electric furnace units) and the regional background (baseline) components. Other anthropogenic sources including a waste incinerator and major roads had only weak impacts on lichen chemistry and isotopic ratios. The correlation between the Sr and Nd isotope ratios indicated that the Sr–Nd isotope systems represented useful tools to trace atmospheric emissions of factories using scrap metal for steel production
De Stille Kracht & Metamorfoze: Renovatie van de Couperusbuurt
No full textRenovatieontwerp voor de duplexwoningen in de vroeg-naoorlogse Couperusbuurt in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. Aan de hand van twee ontwerpen worden de diverse mogelijkheden van renovatie getoond. 'De Stille Kracht' benadrukt de jaren '50 kwaliteit van de buurt en versterkt dit in de architectuur. Bij 'Metamorfoze' staat duurzaamheid centraal en worden de woningen energiezuiniger en comfortabeler gemaakt.Transforming Housing HeritageRMITArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Dithienylethene-based photoswitchable phosphines for light-controlled palladium-catalyzed Stille coupling reaction
No full textHomogeneous transition metal catalysis is a constantly developing field of the chemical sciences. A growing interest in this area is photoswitchable catalysis, which pursues in-situ modulation of catalyst activity through non-invasive light irradiation. Phosphorus ligands are excellent targets to accomplish this goal by introducing photoswitchable moieties; however, only a limited number of examples has been reported so far. In this work we have developed a series of palladium complexes capable of catalyzing the Stille coupling reaction that contain photoisomerizable phosphine ligands based on dithienylethene switches. Incorporation of electron-withdrawing substituents into these dithienylethene moieties allows to vary the electron density on the phosphorus atom of the ligands upon light irradiation, which in turn leads to a modulation of the catalytic properties of the formed complexes and their activity in a model Stille coupling reaction. These results are supported by theoretical computations, which show that the energy barriers for the rate-determining steps of the catalytic cycle decrease when the photoswitchable phosphine ligands are converted to their closed state
A Musical Engagement with ‘Ma’ – Japanese Aesthetics Of Space and Time
No full textThis thesis discusses my exploration of a musical engagement with ma – Japanese aesthetics
of space and time, within my Master of Arts by research portfolio of compositions. Part 1 elaborates a constellation of the concept focusing upon the key terms ‘framing’ ‘transition’ and ‘interpenetrated identity’ which provides a way of understanding this aesthetics of a heightened sense of presence. Parts 3 and 4 discuss specific techniques which have actualized these concepts within two of my recent compositions focusing upon questions about spatio-temporal relations elaborating of the ‘manifesto’ of a concise form of assertions found in Part 2. Further considerations in relation to this research are discussed in Part 5. In the conclusion, I summarize my investigation of a musical language through which I sought to
find structural analogues congruent with the concept of ma
Deoxybenzoins from Stille carbonylative cross-couplings using molybdenum hexacarbonyl
No full textStille-type carbonylative cross-couplings, employing palladium catalysis and Mo(CO)6 as the carbon monoxide carrier, were used for the preparation of deoxybenzoins. Straightforward transformations were conveniently performed in closed vessels at 100 C, providing the products in good yields. Benzyl bromides and chlorides were used as coupling partners with aryl and heteroaryl stannanes. This mild three-component carbonylation employs the destabilizing agent DBU to promote smooth release of carbon monoxide from Mo(CO)6, which made this protocol operationally simple and minimized the formation of Stille diarylmethane products.</p
The Monterey event in the Mediterranean: A record from shelf sediments of Malta
No full textOligo-Miocene carbonate platform and shelf sediments outcropping on the Maltese Islands provide an excellent archive of the paleoceanography of the central Mediterranean. A sequence of shallow water limestones, than shelf limestones, and marls, followed again by shallow water limestones, reflects drowning of a carbonate platform, the establishment of a shelf environment and, in the late Miocene, renewed progradation and aggradation of shallow water carbonates. The sequence recording the deepening of the Maltese platform contains several phosphorite hardgrounds and phosphorite pebble beds. These phosphorites were dated with strontium isotopes. Major episodes of phosphogenesis occurred between 25 and 16 Ma, and they are coeval with those phosphorite events reported from Florida and North Carolina. A Miocene carbon isotope and oxygen isotope stratigraphy was established on planktic and benthic foraminifera and on bulk samples. A major carbon isotope excursion with an amplitude of up to +l‰ between 18 and 12.5 Ma can be correlated with the globally recognized Monterey carbon isotope excursion. This is the first record of this event both in shallow water sediments and in the Mediterranean. The carbon isotope excursion precedes an oxygen isotope excursion which also was recognized in deep-sea records. Major episodes of phosphogenesis and platform drowning preceded the carbon isotope excursion by up to millions of years
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